Light shows are sort of a meditative kind of experience, you know. It is not like a shock.

If you assume you haven't learned anything yet, there's no reason your playing can't stay dynamic all your life.

Listening. That's what music is about. You hear it. And I'd listen to it and something would move me one way or another; and I would try and play it.

Why it's okay for people to tape the shows? Because even so, there's no way you can bottle up the experience. You can take the notes home, but that experience is one you have to be there.

American society has gone completely into denial.

I equate Deadheads to people that like black licorice. There aren't many people that like black licorice, but the ones that do, REALLY REALLY like it! Or buttermilk, or whatever.

That's part of that thing of transcending languages. Every person will have their own language.